ghc github.com help...

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

Would someone feel able to add instructions on how to use github to build GHC, to the GHC Wiki?  It would save folk from re-inventing the wheel.

Probably the right place is a fresh page, linked from here:
	http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Repositories

A link to the diagramatic support that github offers (mentioned on this list a couple of weeks back) would be good, as well as a "how to" guide.

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: cvs-ghc-bounces at haskell.org [mailto:cvs-ghc-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of
| Johan Tibell
| Sent: 12 July 2011 14:48
| To: Karel Gardas
| Cc: cvs-ghc
| Subject: Re: ghc github.com help...
| 
| On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Karel Gardas <karel.gardas at centrum.cz> wrote:
| > Hello,
| >
| > I've forked ghc/ghc repo on github.com to work on ARM port. Now I'd like to
| > check it out and compile it, but I'm not able to `sync-all get' since git
| > complains with `warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to
| > checkout.'
| >
| > I've also tested:
| > perl ./sync-all -r http://darcs.haskell.org/git get
| >
| > in a desperate attempt that git will get all the packages from haskell.org,
| > but the result is still the same.
| >
| > May I ask how the people here are using github.com for their GHC
| > development?
| 
| I tested this a moment ago and this works:
| 
|     git clone https://github.com/ghc/ghc.git
|     cd ghc
|     ./sync-all get
| 
| You'll also want to add your fork as a remote so you can push work to it:
| 
|     git remote add tibbe git at github.com:tibbe/ghc.git
| 
| This only adds a remote for the ghc repo, you might also want to add
| remotes for other packages you cloned, like testsuite.
| 
| You can now push to your repo:
| 
|     git push tibbe master
| 
| Hope this helps.
| 
| Cheers,
| Johan
| 
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